“Organisms we can’t see are accorded the same respect as those that are big and flashy or promise to give a nice… — Judith D. Schwartz Copy Share Image
The handling of our forests as a continuous, renewable resource means permanent employment and stability to our country life. The forests are… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
This is the gospel of labour, ring it, ye bells of the kirk! The Lord of Love came down from above, to… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
In selling his scheme, Obama has been promoting the myth that our system is no better than those of other advanced nations.… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
We discover too late that we have turned a blind eye to the extinction of a species that is essential to the… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
An educator should think of a child as a gardener thinks of a plant, as something to be made to grow by… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
One of the reasons why we started the Green Belt Movement is to work with these ordinary peasant farmers so as to… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
“Consider this: all the ants on the planet, taken together, have a biomass greater than that of humans. Ants have been incredibly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am trying to persuade my family to spend more time in China. It's no fun to be in exile. I can't… — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
Soil is a resource, a living, breathing entity that, if treated properly, will maintain itself. It's our lifeline for survival. When it… — Marjorie Harris Copy Share Image
Nature is very clear on this. In fact, there's one fundamental law that all of nature obeys that mankind breaks everyday. Now… — Tom Shadyac Copy Share Image
A teacher cannot give you the truth The truth is already in you You only need to open yourself – body, mind… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A continent ages quickly once we come. The natives live in harmony with it. But the foreigner destroys, cuts down the trees,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The loveliest, sweetest flower that bloomed in paradise, and the first that died, has rarely blossomed since on mortal soil. It is… — Elizabeth Fry Copy Share Image
The miraculous is not extraordinary but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread. Whoever really has considered the lilies… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Good will is a power that can be used every day of the year and every hour of the day. It is… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
Vermilion alone could render the brilliant red of the tiles on the opposite slope. The orange of the soil, the harsh crude… — Maurice de Vlaminck Copy Share Image
If we weren't so dirt-conscious, we would obtain adequate vitamin B12 from soil, air, water, and bacteria, but we meticulously wash and… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
Capitalism rules worldwide, and a society whose economic fabric depends on constant growth requires that its citizens have ever-expanding needs and wants...… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Since chemical fertilizer burns out the soil organic matter, other farmers struggle with tilth, water retention, and basic soil nutrients. The soil… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If you get someone who looks after himself and those around him, that's a deep ecologist. He can talk philosophy that I… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
We celebrate the cherry tree not for its efficiency but for its effectiveness - and for its beauty. Its materials are in… — William McDonough Copy Share Image
Pride can go without domestics, without fine clothes, can live in a house with two rooms, can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Unlike every other product that is now manufactured for the table, wine exists in as many varieties as there are people who… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“Routine assessments of agricultural soils rarely extend beyond the top 10 to 15 centimeters and are generally limited to determining the status… — Judith D. Schwartz Copy Share Image
... finding that in [the Moon] there is a provision of light and heat; also in appearance, a soil proper for habitation… — William Herschel Copy Share Image
I felt him there with me. The real David. My David. David, you are still here. Alive. Alive in me.Alive in the… — Kelly Easton Copy Share Image
We're at a historical juncture: A growing number of people are declaring what has been achieved over the past decades in Europe… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
How I will cherish you then, you grief-torn nights! Had I only received you, inconsolable sisters, on more abject knees, only buried… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
We're never going to have respectful and reverential relationships with the planet- and sensible policies about what we put in the air,… — Elise M. Boulding Copy Share Image
One year ago, on this occasion, I called your attention to the abuses that had crept into the distribution of our public… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
As Jesus explained, the right things have to die so the right things can live--we die to selfishness, greed, power, accumulation, prestige,… — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share Image
If there were as great a scarcity of soil as of jewels or precious metals, there would not be a prince who… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
One naturally asks, what was the use of this great engine set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over,… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
The beautiful in life... Some talk of it in poetry, Some grow it from the soil, Some build it in a steeple,… — Bernard Meltzer Copy Share Image
Having still in my recollection so many excellent men, to whose grandfathers, upon the same spots, my grandfather had yielded cheerful obedience… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
The only truly dependable production technologies are those that are sustainable over the long term. By that very definition, they must avoid… — Eliot Coleman Copy Share Image
Everybody wants to be on the mountaintop, but if you'll remember, mountaintops are rocky and cold. There is no growth on the… — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
CO2 from air can replace petroleum: it can produce plastics and acetate, it can produce carbon fibers that replace metals and clean… — Graciela Chichilnisky Copy Share Image
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